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ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT WEEK Police Reserve orders by the Hon. Mr. T. H. King, Inspector General of Police:

Chinese Company Training Course-Part I. All recruits of the Chinese Company who have not yet passed Part 11 of Training Course will attend at the Chinese Company Headquarters. on Tuesday, May 20 at 17:30 hours for instruction.

Training Course-Part III. Mem-¡ bers of the Chinese Company will attend at the Kennedy Road Bange on Wednesday, May 27 at 17.00 hours to fire the Part II Revolver Course under Sub-Inspector Hopkins. Only those detailed will attend.

Inspection Parade. All ranks of the

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No. 7 AEO/36

Bringing Cargo from Dunkirk, &c. nrrived longkong on Saturday, 23rd May, 1936.

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. ́TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1936.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

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THE HONG KONG &

SHANGHAI HOTELS,

LIMITED.

INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG)

CINEMA NOTES

Backed with thrills and absorbing drama, "Little Amerien" is an ac- curate pictorial record of Byrd'a nd-

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ventures and battles with death in

the

that the Ordinary Yearly the frozen wastes at the bottom of Some of the most exell- Meeting of Shareholders of The the world.

ing hazardous sequences show Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, trip through polar gales to reach the Limited, will be held at the Regis Bay of Whales the crumbling bay

ice tered Olee of the Company almost meant death for many of the (Exchange Building, Des Voeux Little America, the frozen capital of Admiral's men, the re-discovery of Road Central, Hong Kong), on Antarctica, just as the intrepid ex- Wednesday, the 27th day of May, plorer had felt it four years before, his biggest plane 1936, at 11 a.m., for the purpose and the crush of of receiving a Statement of Ac-and. injury to the plot. "Little. America" which is being shown at counts and the Report of the the Queen's Theatre to-day, brings to Board of Directors for the year life on the screen the battle of

ended on the 31st December, 1945. uree methods of exploration, by dog Byrd's men with the elements, thele tractor party, and by al- and re-electing a Director and there m

plane, and Byrd's long, lonely vigil Auditors.

The Transfer Books of the Com-nt the advance base for seven Consignees are hereby informed pany will be closed from Wednes- months, over a hundred miles from that their goods with the exception of day, the 13th May, 1830, to Wednes. his men. Uplum, Treasure and Valuabies are being landed and stored into the Go-day, the 27th May, 1936 both daya downs of the Hongkong Kowloon inclusive.

By Order of the Board, Wharf and Godown Co. Lt, Kowloon,

obitaned Im whence delivery may bo mediately after landing.-

All claims must be sent in to me an or before Wednesday, 3rd June, 1036, or they will not be recognized.

Damaged Packages will be ex- amined by the Company's Surveyor Messra-Goddard and Douglas in the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 n.m, on Friday, 29th May, 1930.

Consignees must have a Revenue Officer in attendance when any duti able goods are examined by the Com pany's Surveyors.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.

R. OHL. Agent.

Chinese Company will parado at Hongkong, 23rd May, 1936. Central Police Station on Thursday,

May 28 at 17.30 hours under Sub-

Inspector R. J. Hunt for a general

inspection of equipment ste, by the Let's eat-!-

Company Commander, Dress-White

Uniform, Cap with White Cover. Belt with Brace, Truncheon, "Pocket Policeman" and note book to be car- ried. The Equipment Officer will make a point of being present,

Indian Company Training Course-Part 1. Members win are detailed will attend Indian Company Headquarters on Wednes day, May 27 at 17.30 hours for Training Course-Part 1.

Flying Squad

the

F. C. BARRY,

►

"The Thirteenth Guest"

Attaining a new standard of per- fection for mysters melodramas, "The Thirteenth Guest”, screen pre- sentation ot Armitage Trail's Secretary.published murder mystery showing!

Hong Kong, 16th April, 1936.

THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS,

LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Limited, will be held at the Second Floor, Exchange Building, Des Voeux Road, Central, Victoria, In the Colony of Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 27th day of May, 1936, at 11.30 o'clock in the fore- noon immediately after the close of the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Company) for the purpose of considering, and, if thought fit, passing the subjoined Resolution as a Special Resolution.

Peter Lorre and Marian Marsh in "Crime and Punishment" coming soon to the King's and Alhambra Theatras.

at the Oriental Theatre to-morrow and Thursday. Opening in DR abandoned house where a mysterious NEW death had taken place at a dinner party thirteen years before, the plot Immediately plunges Ginger Rogers, the heroine, into the midst of one of the weirdest and

on The

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most unusun! local screen. th two murders to mysteries ever presented account for in the opening sequence, suspleton is directed in rapid-are fashion to ull of the surviving

New York, May 25. Swan, Culbertson & Fritz Dow guests of the fatal dinner party, and the

sensational solution comes in ellmax engineered by Lyle Tapio, Jones summary of yesterday's mar Canada, USA., Japan, and Shang- ket:-The market to-day opened

hai (Vancouver B.C., 16th May) Empr. of Russia who plays the role of a debonair strong and was moderately elive. U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang- young private investigation. The Later, it turned irregular and dull

hal (San Francisco, 15th May) Pres. Hoover production values of the picture areand thereafter

fluctuated Amoy prices Isolated issues gainet Calcutta and Straits the casting has narrowly. remarkable, while been excellent, presenting J. Farrell from one to two points and a tew MacDonald, Frances Rich, Irene issues lost similarly. The majority Rich's charming daughter, and James of the list moved listlessly within a Engles, Eddic Phillips, Alderson, Paul Hurst, Robert Klein, the early rise in response to the put- Erville fractional aren. Steel shares featured Crawford Kent, Ethel Wales, Phillips look regarding higher steel prices. Rangoon Smalley and William Davidson, Motor stocks were mixed. Rubber Strafts and Calcutta That the Capital of the Company

shares were steady. but utility "Torch Singer"

Parcels, Tues., May 20, Noon securities were easy. Silver stocks Fort Bayard be Reduced from $15,000,000.00

were weak and coppers were dull. Saigon via Swatow divided into 1,500,000 shares of Excellently acted, superbly pro- Oll stocks behaved well in light deal- Swalow, Amoy and Foochow $10.00 each to $11,250,000.00 duced and told through the medium togs, featured by Louisiana Oll issues Bangkok divided into 1,500,000 Shares of of a powerful story that never lacks which rose by 10 points to a new

Suspense and draulic fervor. high level. The market for bonds Samahti and Wuchow $7.50 each, and that such reduction Paramount's picture "Torch Singer,"

The main list of stocks alanila be effected by cancelling Capital | featuring Claudette Colbert

was higher. and on the Curb Exchange was irregular, which has been lost, or is unre-Ricardo Corlez is showing to-day, but some selected issues advanced

Japan presented by available assets, to one day only, at the Star Theatre: sharply. Morning Coffee

Where? -KING'S

RESTAURANT

-of course!

Instructional Patrol The Instruct-Breakfast ional patrol for members of Flying squad will take place on Fri- day, May 29 1930. Members will parade nt Central Police Station at 17.15 hours Dress-While Uniform, and Cap with White Cover.

Emergency Unit Reserve Meeting. "AI members of the Emergency Unit Reserve will attend No, 2 Police Stallen on Friday, May 1 29 nt 17.30 hours for an important meeting.

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Tiffins

Toas

Dinners Open from 7 a.m.

First & Mezzanine Floor, King's Theatre Building.

KING'S

ALHAMBRA

COMING SHORTLY!

JEMOTIONAL DRAMATIC_TRIUMPH

INE SHAM OF EVERY-DAY LIVINGI

EDWARD ARNOLD

iny Do levsky's immortal

CRIME and PUNISHMENT

with

PETER LORRE Marian Marsh Robert Allen

and

Mrs. Patrick Campbell Directed by

JOSEF VON STERNBERG

o B. P. Schulberg

production

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

·By Order of the Board,

F. C. BARRY,

Secretary,

another

mother

CX-

For

Per

Tuesday.

Date and Time.

Hong Pong Tues., May 26, 12.30 p.m. Hosang

„Tues., May 26. Lettors,..Tues., May 26, 1 p.m. Tin Seng...Tues., May 26, 1.30 p.m. Shunchi.Tucs, May 26, 2.30 p.m. Hai Ning... Tues., May 20, 3 p.m. Michael Jebsen

Tues., May 26, 3.30 p.m. Thi Ming Tues., May 26, 4 p.m. Pres. Taft Tues., May 28, 4.80 p.m. Wednesday.

Chakanng Wed., May 27, 10.30 am Muinam. Wed., May 27, 11.30 n.m. Santhia ...

Wed., May 27. Parcels, Wed., May 27, 11 a.m. Leiters, ..Wed, May 27, Noon. CAston

Wed., May 27, 2 p.m. Thursday.

Tinegarn Thurs,, May 28, 0,30 a..

Thurs., May 28, 1 p. Taiyuan...Thurs., May 28, 3.30 p.m.

Letters for "Imperial Airways direct R. M. A. Dorado ...... Fri., May 29,

Service"-due London, 8th June..

G. P. O. Reg....Thurs., May 28, 5 p.m. Letters Fri., May 29, 8.30 .m.

K. P. O. Reg....Thurs, May 28, 5 p.m. Letters Fri May 29, 8 am Letters for

by Imperial R. M. A. Dorado ....Fri, May 20. Airwue Darwin,

K. P. D.

Adapted from "Mike" Grace Per- the extent of $2.50 per Share upon kins' Liberty

Swan, Culbertson & Fritz Wail Hothow the Magazine story.

Street Journal commen! U11 23/5 Straits and Calcutta each of the 1,193,867 Shares of the picture presents Miss Colbert in

amarket:-"Industrial Bellvity with Company which have been issued, dual personality role:-Brat as an and by reducing the nominalds the social barriers too difficult accessory earnings are

who probably not decline as much as usual Haiphong .... unmarried, deserted

this mkd-Summer. Automobile amount of all the Shares. In the to overcome, un later as the brazen, the second quarter: Thuring i

Amoy stronger Company's Capital from $10.00 to hard-hearted torch sluger of the

features behind the market seem to othow, Pakhoi and Haiphong .... Kingyuon cabarets who still longs for the baby be pre-dominant. Traders feel that $7.50 per Share.

that Antoy she has been, forced to give up. Dated this 24th day of April, splendid supporting cast assists Miss

the business upturn is strong enotigh

Friday. to offset the Senate Tax Bill. The 1936,

Colbert immeasurably to make the

strength

atility securities IS picture the

emotional gripping drama it is. Ricardo Cortez is

particularly significant. The market cellent as Tony Cummings, the radius now ready for another bullish de

monstration. There is now much Impresario, wito

falls in love with more cheerfulness on Wall Street." the torch ringer only to step aside S. C. & P. New York oflee.cables: gracefully when he finds that her Stock:

2nd Jone The market again reflected eventual happiness depends upon the lack of publie Jolerest, but D

funn. David Manners is showed a cast in the role of the man who "did Times Business Index for the past good undertone. The

Reg., Thurs., May 26, 5 p.m. Letters, Fri., May 29, 8 n.m. her wrong" but, nevertheless, in his werk is 150.3. Steel circles, now ex- Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, Canada, Emp. repentance, he wins the audience's pect a seasonal decline in production

U.S.A., Central and South Ameriċd sympathy.

Conedy relief comes extending through July... from the ever-populat Lyda Roberti

and Europe_vin Vancouver B. C.. Cotton: World manufacturing (Parcels for Canada only)-due and the charming Baby LeRoy who created such a nation-wide sensation excellent crop. The outlook of the

Vancouver B. C., 17th Junë... and uctivity was in excess of last year's

*Europe via Siberia in his initial screen appearance with proposed Government Control Ex- Maurice Chevalier in "A Bedtime changes is discouraglag. Story," But, All in all. it is Miss Colbert's picture and we who feel that we can never see enough of her, are glad of that. Tender

wistful, appealing in the early part of the picture, the character she plays undergoes a complete change. The transition is most deftly accomplished and for that alone, the lovely Claudette wins the laurels..

"Collcen"

To the well-groomed mán, no detail is too small to escape his And that's

notice.

why he insists on Kiwi for his shoes.

Kiwl enhancos 'shra leather, giving it a lustrous polish that lasts all day.

IMIN

The Quality Shoe Polish. WR. Loxley & Co. (China), Ltd.

CANTON AGENTS

for

Thongkong Telegraphi.

WM. FARMER & Co. Victoria Hotel Building

Shameen, Canton.

Tel. 13501..

That inimitable team of screen lovers, Dick Powell with tuneful songs on his lips, and Ruby Keeler with her rhythmic dancing, together- with Joan Blondell and Jack Oakie, head the cast of Warner Bros." latest spectacular musical comedy, "Col- leen," which is

khowit shortly

Wheat: There are some heavy beneficial rains in the South-West, with some complaint of dry cond!- tions in the North-West and in the Spring erop territory. The market looks lower after the expiration of May options. The visible supply shows in decrease of 2,000,000 bushels.

Corn: The visible supply show's in decrease of 1,494,000 bushels, Thu. outlook is lower.

Rubber: The English stock of ribber shows a decrease of 1,407 tona, The market is quiet.

REUTER QUOTATIONS Dow Jones Averages: 30 Industrials at the Queen's Theatre. In addition 20 Ralls.... to the four stars the cast which is 20 Utilities

one

of the most notable ever 40 Bonds assembled for a production of this

Saturday,

C. P. O. Reg....Thurs., May 28, 5 p.m. Letters, .Fri, May 29, 8.30 a.m. of Canada Fri, May 29,

Parcels, Thurs., May 28, 5 p. Reg.,Fri, May 20, 9,15 a.m. Letters, ..Fri, May 29, 10 a.m.

Fooshing and Chitrul

Formans Stralte, Ceylon, India, East

South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe vin Marseilles

(Due Marseilles, 26th June) K. P. O. Parcels; Fri, May 29, 4.30 p.ns. Reg.,....Sat., May 30, 9 a.m. Letters, Letters for K.-M. Service"-doo Chitral

Sat., May 30, 10 a.m.

Amsterdam 8th June

K. P. O.

Reg....Sat., May 30, 8.30 a.m. Letters, ..Sat., May 30, 9 a.m.

ין

Sat., May 30, 8.80 a.m.

....Sat., May 30.

G. P. O. Parcela, ..Fri., May 29, 6 p.m. Reg.,...Sat, May 30, 9.45 am. Letters, Sat., May 30, 10.30 a.m. ..Sat., May 30.

G. P. O.

Reg., ....Sat., May 30, 9 a.m, Letters, Sat., May 30, 5.30 a.m.

Shanghai, Japan and Europe via D'Artagnan . Sat., May 80, 1,30 p.m.

Siberia

150.83, Swatow, Amoy and Formosa

Amoy

May 23. May 25.

150.05

4-1.81

-15.00

30,00

20.01

102.15

102.15

57.11

U.S. COMMODITY

type inchades Ilugh Herbert, Louise Commodity Index 56.75 Fazenda, Paul Draper, Marie Wilson and a score of other famous numes besides two hundred beautiful chorus Hirls und dancing youths, Dick Powell is the serious minded young manager of an estate for a rich and Birtatious uncir, who had purchased a modiste shop for 1 "girt friend."

Dick fails in love with the efficient secretary, of the shop, and manages to win her heart ofter a carles of entanglements filled with hilarious

of the

PRICES

LATEST CABLED

QUOTATIONS

December

New York Cotton

10.40/40 10.39/39

11,44/44 $11.47/17 10.42/42

10.38/38

10.35/35

10.37n

10.41741 10.44/44

comedy for the audience, although The following quotations on the heartbreak to the young lovers. He New York, commodity exchange are also sings three songs. Miss Feeler issued by Reuter has the role of the secretary and In- troduces some remarkable tap dancing July both by herself and with that wizard October stage Paul Draper, Joan Blondell and Jack Oakie are teamet January up as a pair of Gold-diggers, while Hugh Herbert takes the part of Dick May (1937) Powell's eccentric uncle, and Louise Spot Fazenda portrays the hysterical society wife of Hugh Herbert, The May lture was directed by Alfred E. July Green.

March

11.72

unquoted 10.49n 11.4 New York Rubber 15.036

15.00n 15.73b/78a 15.72/72 September 16.83b/850 16.78/79 October

15.855 15.82n December 16.03/94 15.90/00

The next meeting for meditation January and discussion conducted by Dr.

March Reichelt will be held at the Tao Fong Shan Chapel, Bishop's House, Hong- kong, at 8 pm. on Wednesday, May 27.

The usual whist drive will be hold

Kwangtung..Sat., May 30, 1.30 p.m.

Sunday.

Canton Maru.. Sun., May 31, Da.in. Monday.

Mon., June 1, 9 a..

Tues., June 2

G.P.O.

Fort Bayard, Hoihow, Pakhoi and G. G. Paul Dounièr

Haiphong

Tuesday.

Letters for "Air Orient Service” .... Jean Laborde ..

(Due Marseilles, 15th June)

K.P.O.

Reg June 2, 8.30 a.m. Leiters,

June 2, 9 0.m.

Iteg., Letters,

Batavia

Tisondari Tues.,

Saigon, Ceylon, India, *East and Jean Laborde

*South Africa, Egypt, and Europe

via Maraeilles

(Due Marseilles, 2nd July)"

Reg.,

Letters,

K.P.0.

Juno 2, an ..June 2, 10 n.m.

Wednesday.

Reg.,... Letters,

Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, U.S.A., Chichibu Maru

Central and South America,

Canada and Europe via San

Francisco, and Europa via Siberia

Reg.,

Letters,

(Due San Francisco, 24th June) Straits, Ceylon, India, East and Sarpedon

South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marsollles

(Duo Marseilles, 3rd July)

.K.P.O.

June 2. a.m. June 2, 0.30 a.m. Juro 2; 9.30 a.m. Tues., Juno 2,

G. P. O.

June 2, 9.45 0.m. Juno 2, 10.30a.m.

Wed., June 8..

June 2,5 p.m. Juno 3, 8.30 a.m. Wed., June 2.

G.P.O.

Reg.

June 3, am.

Reg..

June 3, 9,45 a.m. Letters, ... June 3, 10 n.m. Letters, ... Juno 8, 10.30 a.m.

*Superscribed correspondence only.

15.00n

10.00b Total sales-410 tona“

Chicago Wheat May July-we September

15.931 10,00

DRUG

ADDICTS

- 03/03%, 95%/95%

--85%/851 -86%/85%

844/84 85%/854

week, in which it was callmated that there were two million drug addicts Ja the world......

The number in Groat Britain in

Saturiny's sales: 16,239,000 busheln, LEAGUE ESTIMATE OF estimated at 30,000, and the annual

at the Kowloon Docks at 9 p.m. to- July day, and will be followed by n tom-September bola. The price of admission will be fifty cents. A whist drive is also May being held aboard H.M.S. Tamar at July 9 p.m. on Thursday,

October

Chicago Corn

68%/48% 59%/50% 60%/60% 6774/18 Winnipeg Wheat

75%/76%

75%/75% closed 70%/70%

TWO MILLIONS

consumption there at five tons.

It is understood that the report Geneva, May 25. was withdrawn because some of the The League secretariat has with government secretariats greatly over drawn the oplum sections of the estimated the number of addicts in report published at the end of last their countries.-Router!